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Three years later, I think our thin-skinned president is still peeved and jealous of Bibi's ability to make Congress swoon -- because NOW what we're hearing is that Obama and his fixer , John Kerry, "are disturbed over what is being perceived in their inner circle as ' Jewish activism in Congress' that they think is being encouraged by the Israeli government ."
.... According to Israel Radio... diplomats and foreign officers have warned against this trend. According to officials based in foreign missions, the Israeli government is increasingly being viewed as fanning the flames among American Jews by encouraging them to promote the official government position while making no room for opposing viewpoints.
Not only does the hypocritical charge of "no room for opposing viewpoints" sound all too familiar, but this "revelation" is likely a foreshadowing of things to come. How long until we are forced to revisit widespread accusations of dual loyalty, poisoned wells and such from the Obama,Walt & Mearsheimer Post-American Left™ ?
Just because Barack Obama is anti-Zionist, that doesn't mean Jews have permission to complain about it. Just ask the White House Press Corpse; they'll tell you.
Posted by Yael at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, 06 January 2014
New York Times Laments Middle East 'Power Vacuum' (the wheel is turning but the hamster's dead)
".... Go back to when Benghazi happened, what was the narrative? At every rally right after the president said if you like your health insurance, you can keep it, what did he say? Osama Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run."
The New York Times did its utmost to get Barack Obama elected... twice... and now they're complaining about the "Power Vacuum" he has created in the Middle East?!
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The images of recent days have an eerie familiarity, as if the horrors of the past decade were being played back: masked gunmen recapturing the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi, where so many American soldiers died fighting them. Car bombs exploding amid the elegance of downtown Beirut. The charnel house of Syria’s worsening civil war.
But for all its echoes, the bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq, Lebanon and Syria in the past two weeks exposes something new and destabilizing: the emergence of a post-American Middle East in which no broker has the power, or the will, to contain the region’s sectarian hatreds.
Amid this vacuum, fanatical Islamists have flourished in both Iraq and Syria under the banner of Al Qaeda, as the two countries’ conflicts amplify each other and foster ever-deeper radicalism.
[NYT Sunday, Jan. 5, pg. A1]
Good thing John Kerry has his boot on the neck of Israel , the only country in that neighborhood that the US has not (yet) "destabilized."